The quotations of

Napoleon

French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815

1769–1821

48 quotes, most often on War & Peace, Leadership and Courage.

My waking thoughts are all of thee.
Letter to Joséphine de Beauharnais (February 1796), as translated in Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine 1796-1812 (1901) edited by Henry Foljambe Hall
- Love
I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.
Conversation with Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases (11 November 1816), Mémorial de Sainte Hélène, v. 4, p. 133.
- Power
It is not that addresses at the opening of a battle make the soldiers brave. The old veterans scarcely hear them, and recruits forget them at the first boom of the cannon.
Napoleon: In His Own Words (1916)
- Courage
- War & Peace

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